BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL

When Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg) is forced into marriage with abusive Albert (Danny Glover) in rural Georgia, she finds strength in other women, including Sofia (Oprah Winfrey) and Shug Avery (Margaret Avery).

Steven Spielberg’s 1985 take on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, centring the resistance and strength of Black women, was nominated for 11 Oscars.

“Celie is a great powerful movie character, played with astonishing grace and tenderness, and to feel her story is to be blessed with her humanity.” – Roger Ebert

The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the novel with Santilla Chingaipe